Centr-Am News, week of August 16–22
1998. Two workers' Centrals are giving the Honduran
government 30 days to decree a general 200 per cent salary
increase and to soften its neoliberal economic
policies. The Social Christian General Workers Central
(CGT) and the leftist Unitarian Workers Confederation
(CUTH) warned that if the demands are not met, in
September workers will act.

Centr-Am News, XXVI, week of
Sept. 13–19 1998. The Honduran government announced
on September 13 that more than 5,000 workers will be laid
off in preparation for the privatization of the Honduran
telephone company, HONDUTEL, in 1999.

Weekly News Update on the Americas, 11
October 1998. Honduran telephone workers suspended a
sitdown strike they began in Tegucigalpa the day before
over the planned privatization the Honduran Telephone
Company. A union leader said: Last night we signed an
agreement in which the company's management promised
to talk with the president of the Congress and present our
demands.

Ananova, 1 March 2001. Teachers organised
the 24-hour strike to demand an extra 4,500
recruits. Arnaldo Pinto, of the Federation of Teachers
Organisations said: The government has acted slowly in
resolving the enormous demand for teachers that exists in
Honduras.